The Congolese singer, Tshala Muana, legendary in her country, where she was nicknamed “la Mamu Nacional” (the mother of the nation), has just died this Saturday in Kinshasa at the age of 64. Her partner and her producer Claude Mashala posted these few words on Facebook this Saturday:
“In the early hours of this morning, the good Lord made the decision to take over the national mamu, Tshala Muana. May the good Lord be glorified for all the good times he has given us on this earth. Goodbye Mamu from me.”
The singer, whose full name is Elisabeth Tshala Muana Muidikayi, has a rich discography of 22 albums, spanning four decades. Her first album banda material It came out in 1986. Gift from GodHis latest album dates from 2018.
women’s rights advocate
She is especially known on the Congolese and international scene for titles such as dezo dezo Where karibu yangu and for modernizing the music of the Luba people.
“We will remember his commitment to the national and African cause, his rumba mixed with the Luba tradition and his titles (Lwatuye, Karibu yangu, Nasi nabali and others) with moral and ethical teachings,” the Ministry of Health of Congolese culture tweeted.
Involved in politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the late 1990s, after spending twenty years in Paris, this defender of women’s rights founded the association Regroupement des femmes congolaises.
rumor of his death
Close to Joseph Kabila, the singer notably presided over the Women’s League of the party founded by the former president of the country, the PPRD (People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy). She was also a member of parliament.
In 2020, a rumor had announced her death, when she suffered a stroke and was hospitalized.
Source: BFM TV
